The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-21
Farm and Garden Notes.

Tomato vines disposed to grow too
thick should be cut and trimmed accord
ingly.
Newly set fruit trees should have the
ground about them kept clean and
mellow.
Sheep and cattle are fond of some
grasses and weeds which hogs reject and
dislike.
Some oppose dehorning cattle because
doing SO leaves the poor beasts at the
mercy of terocious dogs.
Drought has greatly damaged the crops
in Ireland this year, and agricultural
! distress extensively prevails.
1t is said that sunfower seed, fed to
poultry, promotes early melting, and too
much may cause the feathers to fall off.
Twenty pounds of milk will make one
pound of butter, and after the cream is
taken off the same milk will make one
pound of cheese.
An allowance of fax-seed meal, twice
week, will regulate the bowels of ami
mails and prevent them from becoming
hide-bound.
1t is asserted that a free sprinkling of
sifted wood ashes on turnips will prevent
the attacks of the fly. 1t is certain they
act as good fertilizer.
Somebody says good clover hay is al
ways considered as equal to any made
with grasses, and is standard by which
all grass hay is compared.
Turkeys are great stragglers over the
farm and vicinity, but accustom them to
a good supper and they will return in the
evening. So also with ducks.
The pillow is better than the cultivator
with which to kill weeds of heavy
growth. Thick weeds. turned under
green, will afford good fertilizer.
While many COWS in winter will drink
Only once day, in summer all COWS
giving milk require water morning, noon
and night, as much as they will drink.
Sheep manure is one of the richest of
fertilizers because it contains from ninety
to ninety five per cent. of the plant food
contained in the rations consumed by the
sheep.
Hogs are not the most filthy of animals,
naturally, but they are wrongly treated
as such. Their food should always be
clean and healthful and their drink
sweet.
Canada has law which requires every
person on whose plum trees the black
knot appears to cut it out or otherwise
destroy it, the penalty being not less
than five dollars for each offense.
The Shorthorn Society of Great Britain
exported $50 pedigreed animals last year,
295 head of which went to Buenos Ayers.
But thirty-four were brought to the
United States. That society numbers
1. 1873 members.
1t is suggested that the earliest Lima
beans, which grow at the lower part of
the vines, should not be picked until
enough shall have been attended to to
dry for seed, as next season they will pro-
duce earlier than the higher grown seed.
The Prairie Farmer says: DOUBTLESS
the best method of feeding corn fodder
is to run it. ears and ALL through the
power feed cutter; but where there is no
feed cutter, the old methods of feeding
the stalks, with or without ears, can be
practiced proftably."
Professor E. Stewart says that one
ounce, or less, of oil meal to gallon of
warm, sweet whey will make it nearly
equal in feeding value to whole milk for
the raising of a calf to three weeks old,
and after that another quarter of an
ounce may be safely added. The oil meal
should be dissolved in hot whey before
mixing with that of the right tempera-
ture to feed.